Why are some posts bolded and others not?

[Steven P. Administrators]

We've made some pretty dramatic changes with the forum this past year, one important feature being that some topics are bolded in the topic index.

What does it mean?

Bolded topics serve 2 purposes, the first being: it's a new topic that you haven't read yet, and the second: there have been replies since you last read it.

This is a custom hack that Neowin installed into Invision Board* You will also notice that member name colors carry everywhere on the forum now, this makes it easier to see if a moderator has replied to a thread straight from the board index.

* Neowin does not share it's custom code, most if not all are readily available from Invision Modding plus we don't want to take any responsibility for "hacked code" being used on any site other than Neowin.

[Crazysah]

Good post for new members here. I also like that the member name colors are everywhere now. Good job.

[CrashG]

Not seeing the colored names (and I have done Ctrl+F5 as well as run Ccleaner).

[Pupik]

Not seeing the colored names (and I have done Ctrl+F5 as well as run Ccleaner).

I don't see the colored names too and the bold text (the one that described by the op), using Firefox 2.0.0.14 (and Vista Ultimate, if that matters somehow).

[Cara Veteran]

For Troubleshooting Purposes, I see the colors running Mac OS 10.5.3 and Safari 3.1.1 5525.20.

[CrashG]

I'm using XP SP3 w/ IE7. If that's any help. :laugh:

EDIT: ok just checked it on the Wife's machine and it works fine. :blink:

[PL_ Veteran]

Mac OS 10.5.3

Is that an internal release or something?

[Cara Veteran]

Is that an internal release or something?

Some builds are released to Apple Developers, some others are internal, yes. :)

[gigapixels Veteran]

I see colored names on FF3b5, Vista 64-bit.

[+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹]

Not seeing the colored names (and I have done Ctrl+F5 as well as run Ccleaner).

You won't see them coloured under "Your Topics" you will need to visit the forums proper to do that.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Is that an internal release or something?

It's a soon to be released update for Leopard. Working for Apple she has access to it earlier than us mere mortals.

[spenser.d]

I've can see all this stuff, running XP SP3 (MCE 2005) and IE8 (Emulating IE7).

-Spenser

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Works for me. Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008050704 Minefield/3.0pre ID:2008050704

[CrashG]

You won't see them coloured under "Your Topics" you will need to visit the forums proper to do that.

Aah, ok. thought I was going crazier than I already am. :p

[Pupik]

You won't see them coloured under "Your Topics" you will need to visit the forums proper to do that.

What about us people, that can't see the bold text and colored names in the forum section?

http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/6509/66807995sn1.jpg

edit: Ah, here we go. Found the problem. Seems like that two options only work under "Shift" forum theme.

On other themes, it's still not available.

[DaveLegg Developer]

What about us people, that can't see the bold text and colored names in the forum section?

http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/6509/66807995sn1.jpg

Use one of the Shift skins and you will

[joeblogg]

What about us people, that can't see the bold text and colored names in the forum section?

what do you mean? do you mean colorblind people?

[niceadorn]

what does this mean? :(

[aussiefloyd_fan]

cough:troll:cough: it means now posts that you havent read yed.. new posts like new emails are bold in your gmail

[White Cuban]

i thought neowin runs on VB

[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

i thought neowin runs on VB

It's been Invision Power Board for a very long time.

[Pablo2008jedi]

The dead have been raised...run!!!!

[DDStriker]

since its been brought up i may as well post

don't most forums usually bold the text of new posts anyway? i would of expected IPB to have this "feature" from the very start i'm surprised it had to be "hacked" in

[Colin-uk Veteran]

iim guessing it was a feature we added ourselves and the IPB added it in a new release as a standard feature. (although i could be wrong)

but that does seem to happen a lot with our custom hacks :p

[Timan Veteran]

It is a vBulletin feature. We will have this when we upgrade, its extremely simple to do this via templates.